At mip the Canadians were feted by Reed Midem head Xavier Roy who commended Canada for its ‘exceptional audiovisual industry’ and the ‘dynamic policy of production which gives so much force and scope to your market.’…

– Ratings for The Weather Network (Playback, Sept. 25) should have read as follows: for the week of Aug. 28, an average of 2,390,000 tuned in, 1,051,000 for Meteomedia. Average viewers 18+ for twn numbered 3,387,000 for that slot, 1,708,000 of…

Vancouver: While there was no year-over-year change in the number of delegates attending Vancouver’s 10th Annual Film and Television Trade Forum, there was a distinct shift in their geographical origins, says event producer Melanie Friesen….

Telefilm Canada has signed deal letters and contracts for 44 new film and tv production projects in the period Aug. 1 to Sept. 30. The total investment is $37.6 million with a breakdown as follows: $21 million to 22 English-language tv…

Montreal: Despite vigorous protests from a coalition of Quebec film festivals and other Canadian festivals, Telefilm Canada has reconfirmed a decision to withdraw funding for 10 festivals over a three-year period….

In the shadow of the Referendum and the direct-to-home satellite hearings, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Annual Convention takes off Oct. 28….

Robert Armstrong is a broadcasting and film consultant based in Montreal….

The CN Tower can withstand a dinosaur attack….

In June, Johns + Gorman Films, a California-based commercial production house, marked its 10th anniversary by opening a new-media division. Its first project, an Internet site for Swatch, went online at the end of August in 43 nations and in 25…

Coming up this week at The Players Film Company, director David McNally will be shooting a day with dop Joe Pender for Vidal Sassoon through Tatham euro rscg and two days with dop David Franco for the Ontario Lottery Corporation through…

Director Robert Logevall has left Kessler Irish Films to join Steve Chase and Curtis Wehrfritz on the Jolly Roger roster….

In recognition of the one hundredth anniversary of cinema, the National Film Board has unearthed the lost history of Alice Guy-Blache. The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blache, a new documentary about the first female filmmaker directed by…